Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 2 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 3 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 4 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
| 5 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 6 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 7 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 8 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 9 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 10 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 11 | That did not settle the matter , which ran on for eight years more , long after Ramsey left the diocese of Durham . |
| 12 | The result was controversy between Vienna and St Petersburg which dragged on for two decades . |
| 13 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 14 | These include a one per cent discount for single contributions and a five per cent loyalty bonus for people who hold on for ten years . |
| 15 | And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died . |
| 16 | She hung on for two years , existing on fees for supervising undergraduates and an allowance from her father . |
| 17 | Even though they may be working together on contributory problems in the marriage , he still needs to recognise how she hung on for both of them while he was out having a good time . |
| 18 | Is she staying on for another couple of Luxembourg performances ? |
| 19 | ‘ You hung on for twelve years . ’ |
| 20 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 21 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps even die , ’ she tacked on for good measure . |
| 23 | It was in this way that Maurice , with the two of them clinging on for dear life , put out on the tide . |
| 24 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 25 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 26 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 27 | But it 's important not to say they 've only got two minutes for something , and then let them go on for ten . |
| 28 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 29 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 30 | Coleridge introduced his friends to the steep woodland track leading from Porlock Weir to Culbone , and together they walked on for four miles beneath the trees , before emerging close to Broomstreet Farm and Yenworthy . |